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I am a solo sailor working on my circumnavigation. My boat is a 27-foot-long sloop named Gecko. Follow me on my journey as I learn about heavy weather sailing, the trials of being solo, and my adventures in paradise.
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[@andypaul4242]

I have recently spent 3 months in hospital. I discovered your channel and watched all your back content. It took me away from the ICU . Thanks for your content.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Thanks for watching!

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Hope you're healing up Andy.

[@scotttan6377]

Holly's resourcefulness , perseverance, determination, respectfulness for the local areas traveled , spirit for adventure, and the way she tells her story and her reflections makes her channel #WindHippieSailing among the best sailing channels.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Seconded.

[@mmullaley]

10:40 I'm a sailor too! I saw Kennedy Island as you passed. Told my wife "that's Kennedy Island " . I told her the history... she'd known about it. ...BUT I am a history buff and knew what it looked like...also knew about the little resort. She asked " how the f do you know that"...meanwhile she spent 35 yrs pissed off at me delving into stuff. Those Russell Islands you stayed at. Bull Hasley orchestrated the taking back of those. Some very young men had to slug it out to push the enemy to their last little point. The Japanese were very effective evacuating thousands from that very area. The Americans were putting a ship in the water every day, planes came off the assembly line faster than they were shot down. I'm happy you sail through the world in peace ... it was paid for by good men. So glad to see you there. I have had a C&C 30 for 25 yrs...at least 50k solo if I did a nm Yer doing good...keep on. Yamototo plane is in jungle near Bougainville ...little bit of a trek in. ..took down by lightenings out of Guadacanal. Not a major turning point in war for after midway and Guadacanal there was no coming back. Japan could never produce war material like the US.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Thanks for the extra history. Very interesting

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Can you figure out what plane that is/was? I'm no aviation guy, but that engine appears to be a Wright R-3350 Cyclone 18 if I'm not mistaken.

[@michellegaeb2291]

I think it’s safe to say that Holly is officially IN LOVE! 🥰

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Whut? What did I miss?

[@andypeterson2866]

Yes, with Daan!

[@sallyb3]

Awesome snorkeling/ freediving ❤

[@TexasDoug393]

Great stuff as usual! The JFK story is told in a movie starring Cliff Robertson from a few years after Kennedy was assassinated. entitled Pt-109, if I'm remembering right.

[@aeneas-sails]

When you show up on my YT alerts, I know that I'm in for a reliable travel story with just enough raw for veritas and just enough polish for flow.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Big compliment. Thanks!!

[@DarceeVorndran]

SO proud of how you singlehandedly navigated through the narrow coral reefs and lip! Is there anything you CAN'T do, girl? GO, HOLS! PS - you are the only person I know besides myself and Kris Kristofferson who trims the necks of their t-shirt! XO Darcee

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Lots of girls cut the necks of their tees

[@Marcel-J]

Holly, you can make a remote control for your Autohelm. You need a long 3-wire cable and a 3-way switch. It plugs into the side of your Autohelm. My dad made this many years ago and then you can steer from the bow.

[@kapow1324]

Hello Hollie! My Oh My Sanbis and the surrounding village and people 💙By chance we were the first guests to stay at the new "Lodge" in 2011 and were blown away how they completed the construction with the limited machinery etc. Hans who established Sanbis was a sailor himself - wonder if his sail boat is still there? We kayaked from Sanbis over to JFK Island and were buzzed by the current and incredibly deep waters. That was some serious brave treacherous swim by JFK. Had the most incredible experience with Pattison (Sanbis fishing guide).. we spent the day on his family's island and traditional dugout canoes, with too many other family members to count, barely floating. They made a fire, caught and cooked us fresh lobsters with fish and root vegetables. The spirit of their generosity is forever in our hearts.

[@damage98]

Your narrative style is priceless. How amazing from your first sail off new England, to where you are now. Fair seas and following winds to you both. Dan, you lucky bugger.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

I love her neo-hippy accent.

[@chaunceywilliams8405]

Absolutely love your history lessons of the areas you encounter. Good on you for passing these on.

[@johnnya9001]

Free diving through that wreck looks scary to me. Of course I cannot hold my breath like I used to. Cheers.

[@hubrisnaut]

I am older now, so I shouldn't put to sea anymore, but It is so fun that you are sharing your adventures with us. Hello from Maine,

[@WindHippieSailing]

Hello Maine!

[@jaydubya4727]

Thanks for sharing your adventures - I really look forward to your videos!

[@beedonn9260]

Great job sweetheart, and you really turning into being a great storyteller. And we love you be safe take care and we adore you...........❤😮

[@lindairving478]

Townsville Marina! Was there in 2005 and still have a little blue stuffed animal that I found at a pool somewhere nearby. Sorry little child for stealing your toy but it was so cute. Hope you enjoy the Q-land coast! Whitsundsays are nice and Percy Island is cool. You are a force! Enjoy.

[@caractacus22]

Actually girl, you are amazing!,, So enraptured by your trip. Very skillful

[@gneisenau89]

Both of my uncles spent part of WW2 in the Solomons/New Guinea area. Thanks for giving me a close up view of what the area looks like.

[@christip20]

This one was exceptionally good AND…….not only is Dan intelligent & humorous, he’s “Easy on the Eye” as well! Even though we didn’t get to see his Bum!

[@WindHippieSailing]

Haha I woulda showed showed it but KZbin doesn't like nudity

[@tomas5376]

Fascinating video! Love your descriptions. Enjoyed history of PT 109⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵👏👏👏👏👏

[@CoreyChrapkowski]

Crow's nest watchman. Now isn't that the dream job idea.

[@jefffinlay3477]

Awesome vid Holly!let me say if you ever need a bow guy,I asked first!❤always inspiring!

[@DanielTiffany-o8i]

My names Dan 😢. lol have fun guys. Groove 👍

[@derektion2]

Another amazing video! I love seeing all of these remote places you visit. I would love to see maybe a mini series on how single hand your boat. More of a detailed look in to what it takes to be alone on the boat and handling sails and weather

[@DanielTiffany-o8i]

Adventure and a pretty girl. Dan’s doing pretty good. 😊

[@davidthesailor5022]

I spent a week based in Gizo in 1982. No such thing as a resort back then and definitely no pizza. We had to make do with crayfish. When I was there Kennedy Island was known as Plum Pudding Island.

[@patrickjames1080]

Brilllllliant - thanks for sharing ⛵️ 👍

[@johnmajewski1065]

Very interesting witness a Real Adventure unfolding! As lm impressed with your free diving ability! 10 out of 10 thanks from SV Skoiern IV

[@mikestruss7582]

Nice music choices this week. As always my favorite sailing channel.

[@13thbiosphere]

I would recommend doing a tutorial on Navionics like a series of 10

[@WindHippieSailing]

Not much you can do in unsurveyed waters 🤷

[@beestingza]

That might be the coolest way to take a bath ever

[@rainfinger]

Great video, remembering the Solomons from the 1980s.

[@knutarneaakra6013]

Just her giving my respect for you. Somehow you are living my dream.😊

[@beedonn9260]

Nothing like young romance and young love I remember that❤

[@wayneharris1361]

Such an amazing channel! I sailed my own 20’ as a teen everyday. She is truly inspiring! I want to sell my farm now and travel the world on a boat! I would love to say you make it look easy, but you actually make it look very, very complicated. I am so impressed by your skills, your tenacity and optimism. Cheers friend!🔥🤙🏽🔥

[@rosiegreddogyachts4135]

Congratulations on true adventure. Reminds me of my own vagabond experience and i thank you for that.

[@robertbiron]

Very nice episode, thanks Holly, you are living my dream from along time ago. I would have dome it if I had had someone like you in my life. Dan, you are a lucky man.

[@steveking6204]

Nice! You look great...

[@rickquann1556]

excellent video, well done young lass

[@DaleShirley-o1u]

51 years ago I had the idea to dive from the spreaders of a 35 ft Horstman trimaran in Bahia Magdelana Baja decided not to go through with it

[@mikesomewhere7214]

Just want to say what a wonderful person you seem to be. The courage to do what you are doing is off the charts! I love to fish and would hope you have some fishing equipment and catch some beautiful fish. Take care and keep the videos coming they are very inspiring to a lot of people!

[@rickhunt4487]

Hey Holly ! I enjoy tha way u show tha navigation on your tablet ❤ great episode ❤ so interesting an well put together ❤️. Unlike .y comment LOL. Stay Safe 🙂

[@19Loretta69]

Thanx for this episode. I thought it was going to be released yesterday around 8 pm CET. I got a bit worried that something had happened with you and your boat. I liked the music in this episode a lot.

[@WindHippieSailing]

I had some trouble with the upload. All good here :)

[@californiakayaker]

Wow, the sunset at 10:33 was one of the most beautiful ever ! I was 14 when a very dramatic thing happened in my 7th grade classroom. A knock at the door, the teacher went out for a moment, and walked back in and told us what had happened to John F Kennedy. We were so upset and I am still upset to this day when I remember this. It should have been about 1964.

[@noblsht]

Yikes how do you hold your breath that long, not something I could do

[@jamesashworth1975]

Nice wee bonus snippet of you twanging Iron and Wine. Always enjoy watching your vids. Thanks!

[@kimphilley621]

Thank you

[@alleycat5472]

What a great beautiful trip was had this trip. Nice.

[@leannecuster1490]

I share your channel with my friends they subsctibed

[@mariajosemorenoguerrero8638]

Es uno de los mejores vídeos que has hecho

[@soleillebolduc2448]

Cheers to both of your sweetness, together and apart. Sweet to watch! Hick hippie and wind hippie, its like it was written in the stars! xx

[@lifeexplained2u]

I love these snorkeling vids

[@anoldmanandthesea]

Very nice episode - looks like happy days - keep on keepin on!

[@OLDFARTRACINGOFR330-vt9bx]

Love your journey 🔥🔥🔥

[@peterabild1123]

Great video as always

[@drwebstercivet5540]

One of your best videos !

[@norman4991]

Totally magnificent video yet again, thank you Holly.

[@richmorpurgo5554]

What a wonderful video!!!!!!!!!!

[@therokenman2594]

What a great video! You are the best!

[@lloydbrown9327]

Great video, beautiful underwater videos. You have the life I want! Stay safe 🙏 ❤️

[@rocketscientist007]

PT109 was the title of a book (1st published in 1961) & a 1963 movie starring Cliff Robertson as JFK. Kennedy kept the coconut on his White House desk. It's now in the JFK presidential library. Keep in mind that his father, Joseph P. Kennedy was rich & famous and ambassador to the UK from 1938-40.

[@DaleShirley-o1u]

Stunning footage!

[@stevepeterson5943]

That was a pretty big sunken vessel down there. I wondered if anybody tried to fire up the engine but id bet it was flooded : )

[@underthetornado]

Awesome video!😂❤

[@davelcert]

Great episode, really enjoyed it, safe travels 😊

[@sthtemp2]

One of your best. OTT. Thx.

[@mencken8]

At Ghizo, you’re right next to Munda, where my father finished his tour as a Marine Corps pilot, making the lives of the Japanese in the neighborhood interesting 1943-44.

[@WindHippieSailing]

Wow he must have some crazy stories

[@beedonn9260]

Good job sweetheart very very very nice episode❤

[@Vidar.m]

I think the perfect guitar for a sailor might be the Lava 4 me carbon fiber guitars.

[@Seafariireland]

Cool snorkling!

[@terrulian]

Holly, do you have any backups to your electronic navigation? There was a boat in Huahine that was lost when the skipper's iPad died. Despite your successful navigating of the reefs in this episode, shit can happen; and of course in this situation the weather was calm and you could get an idea of the reefs and bommies in clear water. Several boats are lost every year grounding on reefs in gales in the Red Sea, where even paper charts may not be sufficient, same in Fiji. I'd want backups, but I'm a coward.🙂 I do love your posts and spirit of adventure and don't mean to nag. You're an impressive sailor.

[@timwebb8153]

Not sure what tiller pilot you have there Holly, but Raymarine makes a remote for theirs. It ain't cheap, but well worth it if you need to be your own bow crew. Just an idea?

[@wvonfricken]

hey holly!, loved seeing how you plotted through the corals and the shallows on that app: whats it called? and obviously it must locate your position on it and track you, or else you would have to transfer or somehow overlay it onto navionics? would love to know how that works. currently sailing pacific mexico so not all that important for me right now, but it will be when i head south and west to follow the trades...

[@clintmiller4529]

So, to circumnavigate, you are forced into a decision -- go through the Suez Canal, or go around the southern tip of Africa. Is it an easy decision? Which way is safer? If around South Africa, would you cross the Atlantic and head for Brazil? Or up the West coast of Africa?

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen someone take a header off the spreader, lol. What's that creature at 15:31?

[@danwilliams8695]

Fantastic

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

That appears to a Wright R-3350 Cyclone 18 engine, but I'm having trouble figuring out which plane it came out of. Can you describe how big the plane was wingspan wise? Did it only have one engine that you saw? I'm no aviation historian but I'm trying.

[@johnnelson5832]

We're you playing "such great heights" ??

[@DaleShirley-o1u]

Sounds weird but we used charts compass sextant and greniche mean time

[@bottledungdungwekwek]

Nice !

[@stanhigh]

Great video. Great music, maybe you could tell us who the singer was or link to their music . Thanks

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

"Today should have been shower day." I assume the 180 days were up then?

[@martinc6987]

Cool What is this coral called that looks like a giant flower pot,you put your hand in to show the size?

[@WindHippieSailing]

I'm not sure but they were huge!

[@DaleShirley-o1u]

Scotten 6 is my brother I sailed with 51 years old with Kay my sister in law

[@djmini2numpty141]

how long can you guys free dive for ? its amazing :) Frank from down under

[@deansutherland3570]

😎cheers from🇨🇦⛵⛵

[@emmottataolcom]

👍

[@bradorr6912]

❤

[@DarceeVorndran]

PS Is that you playing the song? If not, who is it? It's lovely -Darcee

[@WindHippieSailing]

It's not me. I wish I was that good. Kylie Daily

[@denisebrooks4513]

Awesome video! Does anyone know which specific app Windhippe is using for navigation?

[@WindHippieSailing]

I use navionics for the charts

[@nautichunt84]

Townsville hey? We are just down the coast a bit. How long till you will be in the Bundaberg/Hervey bay area?if you are heading south

[@WindHippieSailing]

Sadly I'm not heading south. I'll be going up over the top to Darwin

[@johnhummer2809]

❤Awesome ❤

[@WillN2Go1]

Terrific episode. You and Dan: role models for all of us. Good synopsis of PT 109. Kennedy invited the two men to his inauguration in 1961. The odd fishing thingamabob. There was all kinds of DIY stuff off the west coast of Luzon, Philippines, including the buoys for the official Three Mile Limit (they looked homemade.) We saw what looked like a DIY life raft. It had the name of a boat that was connected to a nearby island. It was just a folly. Saw another one, similar pile of boards, same boat name. Fishing gear could be a bit odd. Nets often had no clear ends. The fishermen would wave and make all kinds of gestures. I'm really good at this (otherwise I'd still be lost somewhere in China) but I could almost never figure out what they were saying. Go this way, or go that way? Yes. We ran over some fishing gear, which I'm ashamed of. Heading farther out absolutely seems the universal best thing to do. Far from land and at night, fishing boats often turn on their AIS is we are heading towards them or their nets, but turn it off if we aren't. I think they want to keep their position hidden from other fishing boats. So an AIS that disappears and is probably a fishing boat, seems to be a good sign. Fair winds.

[@LWJCarroll]

I guess you havent got up to Honiara yet?. I lived there as a kid 1968/70. Giso was ok then as my parents friend and family moved there for their 2 yr contract. I assume you know about steering clear of sea snakes, lion and stone fish with their poison spines. Also dont touch nor handle cone shape sea shells due fatal toxic dart. Also live coral has protective infectious or toxic slime on it. The local Solomon Islanders can advise you. Btw Solomon Island people dont always like being filmed or videod. Ask first. We used to have shark attacks around Honiara coast and on Malaita. We used to sit on the beach side of the Mendana Hotel Honiara and watch the local sharks cruising in at dusk, in the little bay with the yacht club next door. Never swam there, only once in a bay north and chased out by a sea snake, very poisonous. Honiara is alot bigger now with shops hotels etc. I went to St Johns school and King George 6th High School,. very good memories. btw cuts and scratches can festor inside 24 hrs . lol fire ants on grass and done that dance!. lol. Take care. Laurie NZ

[@rbrt1465]

Who is the artist for the music in the video. Nice song

[@beestingza]

Ok what on earth is that conical horn-shaped coral? I can't identify it.

[@Fwdking]

Are you coming to Australia? 1👍🦘🇦🇺

[@WindHippieSailing]

Yep!

[@Fwdking]

@WindHippieSailing only recently have i been drawn to the idea of buying a small cat. Never sailed but giving myself 2yrs to get necessary skills etc. My plan , just do Queensland coast and islands. . I was super impressed with your mechanical abilities. I've started looking at previous episodes. Thanks for responding. 🇦🇺🦘👍

[@mvakleko]

3:31 can you not do that with iPhone and google maps under profile and “offline maps”? It lets you download any area you pick?

[@WindHippieSailing]

I don't know! That would be cool though

[@tahirsargin8236]

👏👏👏